South Hadley, Mass.,
Feb. 25, 1908.
9:30 P.M.Dear Sister:-
I am so awfully sleepy that I can't study so, simply not to waste time I will write to you. I wrote to Roger to come over to-night but he didn't come & I was wondering if I had said anything that I ought not to have said when in came Alice with a letter for me from him. He wrote that he had fully intended to come over to-day but when he awoke this A.M. one side of his face was all swollen up with the mumps. He said that he didn't know as he should ever see me again. Poor boy! We are having a run of measles here. Several people are said to have them but some way they get well very quickly. One of the Juniors had them for a few days but was allowed to go to Prom. She wasn't sick at all, only had the rash.
Margaret has been sick ever since the Prom. She worked too hard. She has an awful cold and sore throat. She feels pretty mean to-night but I hope she will be better to-morrow. Our report cards came out to-day and Margaret won't look at hers to-night lest it shouldn't be what she wanted. I got straight credit. Quite a number of the Freshmen that I have heard of did. Bessie McCoy was quite sick yesterday but is much better to-day. So many sore throats around scare me. Mine is behaving beautifully. My cold is going as fast as can be expected but my nose has been and is awfully sore. I am a real beauty now with a nose as red as a red, red rose.
Sunday night at Vespers the minister said that he had a few words he wanted to say to the young ladies present. Then he went on to tell what an inspiration a woman was to a man. What a subject when so many Prom-men were there! He persisted in addressing us as brethren. Mr. Hammond played "The March of the Magi Kings" again after Vespers. Marion Osbourne sat directly in front of us so I had a fine view of her brother. He is better looking than Marion is.
We found that there was quite a joke on Anna Runyon. You know where we sign for absence from college, there is a place for the Dom. substitute and another for the Chaperon. Well, Anna was so crazy the day of the Prom that when she registered for wherever she was going she wrote Miss Galt's name under Dom. substitute instead of chaperon.
Wed. P.M.
This is going to be written whenever I get a spare moment so it may sound choppy. Margaret's throat is better but she felt so mean all over that she let Marion Osbourne go for the doctor. Dr. Underhill said that it was nothing but her cold, that she had better stay in bed and do no studying but Margaret is determined to do Latin Prose with me this P.M. I swept our room and put up some pictures that I brought back after Christmas. I hadn't taken the time before. I had done Latin and Math & been down in the laundry & done my week's ironing. You can depend upon it that when I am rising a dozen (more or less) handkerchieves a day they don't all get ironed. I have Latin Prose and a theme of 900 words on the most impossible subjects Miss Evans could think of, to do this P.M.
7:30 P.M.
I have been to Mr. Hammond's organ recital and enjoyed it very much. The music was all old, written somewhere back in the sixteen and seventeen hundred[s]. We have just been acting like everything at table. Jessie and Margaret were not there. (Margaret cannot stand sitting beside of the matron so she cuts dinner quite often.)
Anna RunyonMarion Osbourne played a little trick on Anna Runyon and they did considerable fighting. Then Esther began to perform & the girls got to laughing & Anna threw some water at Esther. Well Miss Smith didn't say a word but kept getting mader [sic] & mader. I don't see how she could think we were laughing at her but I fancy she did. Finally Elizabeth laughed out & that set us off. Miss Smith folded up her napkin not even waiting for us to finish our desert. [sic] Then she got up & westtumbled out of our chairs folding our napkins as we arose. Miss Smith didn't wait for us to push our chairs back but turned & went out into the kitchen. The rest of us stayed until we had all got our napkins folded. Then we left, with straight faces, but we exploded upon reaching the hall. I rather expect a few remarks will be made to us.8:45 P.M.
I am going to stop pretty soon and have mercy upon you. I have just been to a fine lecture on Mental Hygiene by a Mr. Cabot of Boston. I saw Ruth Johnson and she introduced me to an '05 girl. I think her name was Shaw. She said she knew you real well and had been wondering what you were doing.
I suddenly have discovered that I have an English conference to-morrow so I must hustle now.
Where are the Skerrye boys staying?
With love to you all,
Molly.